LitHub Daily: March 15, 2016

TODAY: In 44 BC, Julius Caesar is stabbed (his life-rights are promptly acquired by William Shakespeare).

• Rosalie Knecht reflects on the stories she tells as a social worker and how they bleed into fiction. | Literary Hub
• Darcy Steinke in conversation with Samantha Hunt: on loneliness, motherhood, hauntings, and cults. | Literary Hub
• At 97 years old, Doris Grumbach looks back on a most extraordinary literary life (including getting fired from The New Republic, before it was cool). | Literary Hub
• Hatred nourished by bread and milk: An excerpt from Barkskins by Annie Proulx. | The New Yorker
• Garth Greenwell on the queer tradition of autofiction, the thrill of writing prose, and combining patience and indulgence. | Bookforum
• A new issue of The Scofield, featuring Jeffery Renard Allen, Helen Phillips, and a lot of doppelgängers, is now live. | The Scofield
• There is always, always more to confess: A profile of Melissa Broder. | Elle
• “The bell doesn’t work. The joke doesn’t work. His house of love is a house of pain.” J. Robert Lennon writes original fiction inspired by the 200th episode of The Cosby Show. | Electric Literature
• The first installment of Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers 2016: Advocates who are “changing the face of libraries of all types and sizes.” | Library Journal
• “Some people said that writers are exceptions to begin with. They’re weirdos anyway. They’re selfish, shallow, self-absorbed to begin with.” An interview with Meghan Daum and Elliott Holt. | The Rumpus
• Beyond adult coloring books: On literary trends, ranging from mindfulness to birds. | The Guardian

Also on Literary Hub: Books making news this week: innocents, loners, and existentialists · Debate Spinglish, Primary Day edition: translating the debate craziness of the last two weeks · The punks of Hà Nội’s late night food scene · 30 Books in 30 Days: Jane Ciabattari on Anthony Marra’s The Tsar of Love and Techno · The book: from Jonathan Levi’s Septimania

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